Bush wanted to invade during the fall of 2002 (IIRC) so that they would have six months in the milder Iraqi winter to wage war instead of the harsh summer. Liberals in Congress and at the UN nagged Bush not to invade until Congress could be satisfied and he could arrange for other countries to share in the invasion. That took six months.
I still believe that was enough time for Hussein to have his WMDs dismantled and transfered to Syria and Libya so he could hoodwink the West into believing he had none. It was reported during the Iraq War that trace evidence of WMDs had been found in a few military sites.
It always seemed fishy that Libya would suddenly volunteer that they had WMDs and would destroy them immediately when pressured by the U.S. - Libya never said where they got those WMDs from but they seemed to be readily willing to give them up, making me think they weren’t theirs to begin with.
By the time this information made its way to the western media, the “Bush Lied” theme was already in full force so there was no information that was going to move the liberals and their media to admit Bush might have been correct in his early assessment.
Maybe I’m naive but I just don’t think Bush would commit troops to invade Iraq and Colin Powell wouldn’t trot out spy satellite photos they knew to be false just to gin up a war. I could be wrong. But I still am unwilling to condemn either without stronger proof that they knowingly went to war under false pretenses or to stop Hussein from financing suicide bombers in Israel, which he was doing prior to the invasion and stopped soon afterwards.
So you still think the Iraq war was a good idea Got it